Pith Number

pith:J6WQMRRD

pith:2018:J6WQMRRDN5DPANAYIV7SQFCEKF

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Challenges and pitfalls of partitioning blockchains

Enrique Fynn, Fernando Pedone

arxiv:1804.07356 v2 · 2018-04-19 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J6WQMRRDN5DPANAYIV7SQFCEKF}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:16:20.996837Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4fad0646236f46f03418457f281444515388e4b760d573a3a21deaa3931fd345

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.07356 · arxiv_version: 1804.07356v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.07356 · pith_short_12: J6WQMRRDN5DP · pith_short_16: J6WQMRRDN5DPANAY · pith_short_8: J6WQMRRD

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J6WQMRRDN5DPANAYIV7SQFCEKF \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 4fad0646236f46f03418457f281444515388e4b760d573a3a21deaa3931fd345

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d4534a48db8215d5ab85fef90f580ffff7fb81c0103fcdaafca2266c7891db9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-19T20:03:30Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "613de20ae73e163443209a1b6f434e05fe2062fd69eb2c54672b195fe0832b67"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.07356",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}